How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNReligion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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